K 2025 is over - and what a week it was for cir­cu­lar innovation.

At the BASF booth in Hall 5, tri­na­miX show­ca­sed how mobi­le NIR spec­tro­sco­py enables fast, on-the-spot ana­ly­sis of pla­s­tics and tex­ti­les to sup­port Design for Recy­cling and PPWR readiness.

Solid Scan­ner was on site throug­hout the fair, sup­port­ing the tri­na­miX team, enga­ging with visi­tors, and dis­cus­sing real-world use cases from recy­cling and pack­a­ging deve­lo­p­ment across the DACH region.

What Visitors Experienced at the trinamiX Booth

Pla­s­tics Recy­cling Solutions

  • Reflec­ti­vi­ty & Sor­ta­bi­li­ty Check - mea­su­re NIR detec­ta­bi­li­ty of colo­red and black pla­s­tics befo­re production.
  • 10 Pla­s­tics App - iden­ti­fies 10 most important pla­s­tics, inclu­ding HDPE and LDPE-
  • Pla­s­tics Max App - is able to iden­ti­fy a wide ran­ge of about 30 dif­fe­rent pla­s­tics, inclu­ding seve­ral engi­nee­ring pla­s­tics, some blends and PET-A and PET-G
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Tex­ti­le Recy­cling Solutions

  • Instant iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of poly­es­ter, cot­ton, nylon, elas­t­a­ne, and blends within seconds.
  • Prac­ti­cal demons­tra­ti­ons of por­ta­ble ana­ly­sis for manu­al or semi-auto­­ma­­ted sort­ing setups.

All men­tio­ned appli­ca­ti­ons ran on tri­na­miX PAL One and PAL Two hand­held spec­tro­me­ters - solu­ti­ons Solid­scan­ner dis­tri­bu­tes and sup­ports throug­hout the DACH mar­ket. Only tri­na­miX PAL One fea­tures PA6/66 dif­fe­ren­tia­ti­on with Pla­s­tics Max and nylon dif­fe­ren­tia­ti­on with tex­ti­les appli­ca­ti­on. The Tex­ti­le appli­ca­ti­on for PAL Two will be released in ear­ly 2026.

tri­na­miX PAL One also fea­tures the fol­lo­wing applications:

  • Mul­­ti-Mate­­ri­al Film App (iden­ti­fies PE/PA and mul­ti­lay­er struc­tures for recy­cla­bi­li­ty assessment)
  • Cor­re­la­ti­on App (veri­fies whe­ther pro­duc­tion mate­ri­al matches refe­rence spec­tra for QA and R&D)

Industry Spotlight

During the fair, tri­na­miX PAL Two appeared on the cover of Plast­ver­ar­bei­ter magazine’s Octo­ber 2025 issue - a strong signal of how hand­held spec­tro­sco­py is rede­fi­ning Design for Recy­cling.
👉 Read the full sto­ry: tri­na­miX PAL Two fea­tured on Plast­ver­ar­bei­ter cover

Key Takeaways from K 2025

The con­ver­sa­ti­ons at Düs­sel­dorf show­ed clear momen­tum: recy­cla­bi­li­ty veri­fi­ca­ti­on is beco­ming part of ever­y­day design and qua­li­ty pro­ces­ses.
Pack­a­ging engi­neers, recy­clers, and brand-owners are now loo­king for por­ta­ble, data-dri­­ven tools to vali­da­te NIR detec­ta­bi­li­ty and mate­ri­al com­po­si­ti­on direct­ly on site - and trinamiX’s hand­held solu­ti­ons pro­vi­de exact­ly that.

What’s Next

Solid Scan­ner con­ti­nues to work clo­se­ly with tri­na­miX to make the­se solu­ti­ons available across the DACH region.
If you’d like to explo­re how mobi­le NIR spec­tro­sco­py can sup­port your pro­ces­ses, visit:

About trinamiX Mobile NIR Solutions

tri­na­miX makes advan­ced Near-Infrared (NIR) tech­no­lo­gy acces­si­ble out­side the lab - enab­ling recy­clers, pack­a­ging spe­cia­lists, and tex­ti­le pro­ces­sors to make fast, relia­ble decis­i­ons on the spot.

Learn more about our pla­s­tics and tex­ti­le solutions:

Note: 

Ori­gi­nal­ly published as an event invi­ta­ti­on for K 2025. Updated Octo­ber 2025 to reflect post-fair insights and ongo­ing tri­na­miX solu­ti­on availability.